Tag: Novgorod
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01 Work, The Art of War, Klaudii Vasilievich Lebedev’s The Fall of Novgorod, with footnotes
The Fall of Novgorod depicts the capture of the City of Novgorod by Ivan III in 1478. Ivan had the city bell—a symbol of self-governance by the citizens—taken down and transported to Moscow. In the painting Marfa Boretskaya, the mayor’s widow and leader of the resistance, stands in silent outrage as Ivan’s troops remove the…
Zaidan Gallery 